Monday, March 2, 2015 Last update: 6:02 a.m.
POLL QUESTION
Testing the test: Mainers push back against standardized testing
BELFAST | High school student Madison Cook is not looking forward to the upcoming round of standardized tests Maine students soon will need to …
VIDEO
Mushers rest for final leg of Can-Am Crown 250
FORT KENT | The three frontrunners in the Can-Am Crown 250-mile sled dog race had reached the final checkpoint in Allagash early Sunday evening …
VIDEO
Skijoring adds another day of dog-powered sports to Can-Am weekend
FORT KENT | On Saturday, Vermont musher Heather D’Arcy and her team of six Siberian huskies placed seventh in the Can-Am Crown 30-mile sled …
REGION:
Skowhegan man’s fiery death ruled suicide, police say
FAIRFIELD | A 61-year-old Skowhegan man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on …
Loud-mouth bird spurs East Millinocket to consider anti-rooster ordinance
Pepe the Rooster wasn’t around long, but he made such a …
Elderly driver crashes into Westbrook Rite Aid, injuring employee
An 84-year-old Gorham man crashed his car into Rite Aid Pharmacy on …
Bangor team headed to D.C. after winning Maine Regional Science Bowl
Five high school students and their coach are headed to Washington, D.C., …
HE SAID, SHE SAID (blog)
Maine’s governor and attorney general need to join forces against DHHS incompetence.
The “top stayer” at a Portland homeless shelter caused quite a stir this week when …
- Chicago baseball legend Minnie Minoso, trailblazer in integration, dies
- Monroe Freedman, scholar of legal ethics and civil liberties, dies at 86
- New York Knicks star Anthony Mason dies
- Newburgh man charged in hit-and-run involving Amish horse-drawn cart
- Life and death at the heart of Boston bombing trial
- Netanyahu flies to US as tensions over Iran speech ease
Opinion
EDITORIALS
Want to cut jail spending? Stop putting so many low-risk people in jail
Although Maine’s crime rate has dropped, the number of people held in county jails has doubled in the last two decades. Maine, like other states, …
Sports
Hampden boys surge to 2nd Class A state championship in 3 years
AUGUSTA | A fast start and dominant finish sparked Hampden Academy to its second Class A boys basketball state championship in three years Saturday …
Health
CATCHING HEALTH (blog)
A Hard-Learned Lesson about Shingles
It was the beginning of a Labor Day weekend when Al felt a strange sensation on his right buttock, just underneath his back pocket where …
Business
CONSUMER FORUM
There’s no doctor-patient confidentiality on the Internet
Internet watchers have long been warning consumers about the privacy implications of tracking. Now, one researcher says simple online searches for health information could be …
Living
SARAH SMILEY
More than two years later, tough decision to stay in Maine worth it
For some decisions, there is an obvious best choice, with very few repercussions. Dessert, no dessert? Dark blue paint, lighter blue paint? Heels, flats? Scrambled, …
Outdoors
VIDEO
GoPro captures musher’s perspective during sled dog run in Fort Kent
The 2015 Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races is happening in northern Maine this weekend. Mushers from around the United States …
Food
IF MY COASTER COULD TALK (blog)
American on Tap – Bangor Edition
I heard about America on Tap in mid-December, that’s when I started emailing them to find out about their organization and about the two events …
Events
CULTURE SHOCK (blog)
Lady Antebellum to return to Bangor Waterfront, with guest Hunter Hayes
Lady Antebellum, multi-platinum country trio, will play its third concert at the Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion this summer, when they return to Bangor on Thursday, June …
- CULTURE SHOCK (blog): 5 Things To Do This Weekend, Feb. 27-March 1: Goodbye, February, you miserable so-n-so
- BACKSTAGE (blog): Penobscot Theatre Company presents “End Days”: a Maine Premiere
- GEORGE'S OUTDOOR NEWS (blog): Join us March 6,7 for Bob Duschesne’s Birding Adventure with Maine Huts and Trails
